In the framework of the project “Modern
European educators and teaching with ICT”
Basic IT facts
MICROSOFT
• Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology
company, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and
sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal
computers. Its best known software products are the Microsoft
Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer and Edge web
browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game
consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. It is the world's
largest software maker measured by revenues and also one of
the world's most valuable companies.
• Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4,
1975
• Microsoft is a portmanteau of the words microcomputer and
software.
BILL GATES
• Bill Gates is an American
business magnate,
philanthropist, investor,
computer programmer,
and inventor. In 1975,
Gates co-founded
Microsoft, that became
the world's largest PC
software company, with
Paul Allen. Gates is
currently the richest man
in the world with an
estimated wealth of $79
billion.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
THE WORLD’S RICHEST MAN
BILL GATES
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If Bill Gates was a country he would be the
#63 richest on earth
Bill Gates aimed to become a millionaire by
the age of 30. However, he became a
billionaire at 31.
Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison
and Steve Jobs, all of them had no college
degree.
Bill Gates continued to fly coach until 1997, when his net worth was already $36
billion.
Bill Gates pays over $1 million per year in property taxes for his house.
At a spending rate of $1 million a day, it would take Bill Gates 218 years to spend all
his money.
The only thing left on Bill Gates' bucket list is not to die.
Bill Gates' Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World
Health Organization of the United Nations.
APPLE
• Apple is an American multinational technology company,
that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics,
computer software, and online services. Its best-known
hardware products are the Mac personal computers, the
iPod portable media player, the iPhone smartphone, the
iPad tablet computer, and the Apple Watch smartwatch.
Apple's consumer software includes the OS X and iOS
operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari
web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and
productivity suites. Its online services include the iTunes
Store, the iOS App Store and Mac App Store, and iCloud.
• Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and
Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976
STEVE JOBS
• Steven Paul Jobs was an American
businessman. He was best known
as the co-founder, chairman, and
chief executive officer of Apple
Inc. and largest shareholder of
Pixar Animation Studios a member
of The Walt Disney Company's
board of directors following its
acquisition of Pixar; and founder,
chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc.
Jobs is widely recognized as a
pioneer of the microcomputer
revolution of the 1970s,
GOOGLE
• Google is an American multinational technology
company specializing in Internet-related services and
products.
• Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a
chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships
beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online
productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud
storage service (Google Drive), an office suite
(Google Docs) and a social networking service
(Google+). Desktop products include applications for
web browsing (Google Chrome)
• Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University.
• Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web
Search or just Google, is a web search engine owned
by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on
the World Wide Web handling more than three billion
searches each day.
SERGEY BRIN
• Sergey Brin is an American
computer scientist and internet
entrepreneur who, together with
Larry Page, co-founded Google,
one of the world's most profitable
Internet companies.
• According to Hurun Global Rich
List 2015 he is jointly one of three
people listed as 18th richest in the
world (21 overall) with a net worth
of $30 billion.
• Brin immigrated to the United
States with his family from the
Soviet Union at the age of 6.
FACEBOOK
• Facebook is an online social networking service. Its
website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark
Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates. The
founders had initially limited the website's membership
to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in
the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford
University. It gradually added support for students at
various other universities and later to high-school
students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old
was allowed to become a registered user of the
website.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
• Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American
computer programmer and Internet
entrepreneur. He is best known as one
of five co-founders of the social
networking website Facebook.
Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief
executive of Facebook, Inc. In 2007,
at the age of 23, Zuckerberg became
a billionaire as a result of Facebook's
success. His personal wealth, as of July
2015, is estimated to be $38.6 billion.
Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar
salary as CEO of Facebook.
TWITTER
• Twitter is an online social networking service that enables
users to send and read short 140-character messages
called "tweets".
• Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan
Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July
2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In
2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites,
and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet.“ As
of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out
of which more than 302 million are active users.
JACK DORSEY
• Jack Dorsey is an American
programmer and
businessman widely known
as a co-founder of Twitter,
and as the founder and
CEO of Square, a mobile
payments company. In
2008, he was named to the
MIT Technology Review TR35
as one of the top 35
innovators in the world
under the age of 35. For
2012, The Wall Street Journal
gave him the "Innovator of
the Year Award" for
technology.
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